<p>I think i'm probably going to apply to transfer to Yale next fall. Yale would normally be a real reach for me, but how much do you think it helps that my parents are both professors there? I'm also working as a Yale Intern this summer and next semester (taking a year off) and will be taking a class there as well. Hopefully I can get a recommendation from the Associate Director i'm working for and also from one of our family friends who is a master at one of the colleges at Yale, in addition to a professor recommendation from my current college. I'm just wondering how much this could help me.</p>
<p>One of next year's thirty available slots is now filled.</p>
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<p>The answer: It will help you A LOT. This is Yale, afterall...</p>
<p>you're still gonna need fantastic grades ... but it's gonna be a whoooooooole lot easier for you to get in</p>
<p>you are in, and they will probably give you a scholarship 2.</p>
<p>I'd say it still depends on what kind of person you are. If you get great recomendations - truly enthusiastic and not just perfunctory, that will make a difference. Also, are your parents full, tenured profs, or not? That would make a difference. Your grades at your present school will also matter.</p>
<p>My parents both have tenure. I know that I have a really enthusiastic rec. from my adviser/professor at my current school, and the one from Yale totally depends on how I do, as I haven't even started there yet. I had a 3.5 gpa at Mount Holyoke first semester and a 3.9 second semester. There is one thing i'm worried about though. I started working at the mentoring program at MHC second semester, mentoring for a Spanish class that was MUCH more advanced than the one I was taking myself (my professor from first semester requested me as her mentor, saying I could help with structure and ideas over grammar). It involved going to the class, helping students outside of class, and doing a lot of really difficult reading. As a sort of precaution, I took one joke class, plus three other regular ones, and Mentor Training which counts as 2 credits. At the time, I wasnt thinking about transferring. So basically, i'm worried that they wont see my course load as very challenging.</p>
<p>I'd say you have a good chance - good luck and just keep up the good work. I doubt that one less challenging class would spoil it for you if everything else is sterling.</p>
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<p>LOL...true'dat</p>
<p>My aunt is an adcom at UPENN and that is exactly why I didn't apply there. I think peace of mind is more important than anything. I'd rather live my life knowing that whatever I accomplished was achieved without effectively cheating.</p>
<p>But I still understand why some would be willing to take advantage of their position. I'm not sure what my position on this is...</p>
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"You go through ... and you call out each name and you vote thumbs up or thumbs down," the former admissions officer said, noting that most applicants who are vetoed by the geographical admissions officer do not even get discussed.
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Sometimes, the former admissions officer said, he was not even required to read the development kids' folders because there was no way to reject them.</p>
<p>"Year after year, there are kids who get into Yale and take the spots of more deserving students because of money," the former officer said.</p>
<p>Mostly, development kids are legacies, but very rarely, families with no Yale association other than a child applying to the College will make big donations, he said.</p>
<p>The officer spoke of one development student from a prominent East Coast boarding school who was rejected because he did not deserve to get in, but later was accepted as a transfer student.</p>
<p>"I said I would walk if they let him in," the officer said. "We ended up rejecting him, but then he got in later."
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<p>Interesting, at least!</p>
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<p>Hardly...</p>
<p>Does this actually suprise you?</p>
<p>kitkat, on a previous post you mentioned that you were a Tufts transfer applicant for fall 2005 and I was wondering if you have heard anything yet?</p>
<p>thanks and good luck with yale</p>
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<p>No, what surprises me is that they are so OPEN about it!</p>
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<p>Someone could say that the adcoms at Yale were all former members of the Third Reich and people would still use acceptance as the defining criteria of a worthy existence...</p>
<p>I don't fret about not getting into Columbia because I recognize that the Ivy's are very much a club and that anyone with a pulse and a boatload of money can get in</p>
<p>Helenoftroy, that's an interesting article. To be honest, I think Yale would still be a long shot and if I got in I would have mixed feelings about going there. I still have a year to think about it, though.</p>
<p>Antneey--no, I haven't heard yet, but I got rejected from my top choice and the only other school I applied to (Wesleyan), and I don't think Tufts is actually a good fit for me. I'm planning on taking a year off--working and taking classes, and then going to Spain to be an Au pair/teach English for a semester, which would be really amazing, but things are pretty scary right now at the same time.</p>
<p>Please don't take offense to this, but you have two tenured Yale professors at Yale and you attended MHC and took some joke courses? I just find that highly surprising...most of the Ivy prof brats (said lovingly, of course) that I know attended top 10 unis or LACs.</p>
<p>enviroman, I can understand that. A lot of friends whose parents also work at Yale go there now. I took one joke course my first year b/c I was going to be mentoring for an advanced Spanish LIt. course which required me to attend the class in addition to my 4 other classes plus 2 credit Mentor Training and work 8-10 hours outside of class with that. I was afraid it would be a lot. </p>
<p>Also MHC is a highly respected school--it's not Yale, but it's in the top 25 LACs and it's a lot harder to be competitive for the simple fact that it's all women--but it has excellent academics. </p>
<p>The reason I didnt end up at Yale is because freshman year of highschool I had a bit of a rebellious streak, thought I was really cool, and basically stopped caring about my grades. I ended up switching to another school in 10th b/c I had such a bad year and that year I got mediocre grades b/c I still wasn't trying. It wasn't until junior year that I realized I really wanted to do well for me, and from junior year on I've done really great. I just got my identity crisis out of the way early!</p>